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Staunton Va.
March 23rd 1867.

Brt. Brig. Gen'l O. Brown
Asst. Com. B.R.F. & A.L.
Richmond Va.

Dear Sir.

Feeling that I have been unjustly dealt with, in regard to school matters at this place, and hoping you will pardon the liberty I take in this addressing you upon the subject, I have concluded to submit a plain statement of the facts in the case for your kind consideration. First, then permit one to say, that this is my third year in the work. the first two being under the A.M.A. and this, the third, under the "Baptist Home Mission Society", and I think I can truly say, that I have labored as earnestly, and zealously, as perhaps any other teacher, and been as deeply interested in the education of the freed children, as I possibly could have been, and never, to any knowledge, has there been one word